James Barragán

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James Barragán covers Texas politics for The Dallas Morning News. He has covered immigration, public safety and voting rights and has traveled on assignment to the U.S. Supreme Court and Houston during Hurricane Harvey. Before joining The News in 2017, he worked for the Austin American-Statesman and The Los Angeles Times. He grew up in Southern California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in history.

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The advisory, released by interim Secretary of State David Whitley in January, said the state had identified 95,000 people on Texas voter rolls who had received driver's licenses while in the country legally but were not U.S. citizens.

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Texas House members on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a 'Born Alive' act by Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, penalizing physicians who fail to care for an infant born alive after an abortion. The Senate has already signed off on a similar bill.